The title means "hell" and they aren't kidding or being metaphorical here. The entire focus of the film is death and the last half hour is an attempt to depict what hell would actually look and feel like to those poor sinners (essentially everybody) unlucky enough to end up there. This means folks burning, being torn apart by monsters, sliced apart with sharp knives eternally, etc. The usual propaganda offered up these last 16 centuries by "christians" looking to keep the populace in tight control.
Whew! Seems to me that this guy needed a hug or something. I can't imagine what the shoot was like. Not my idea of a swell time.
At this point, this is just an oddball curiousity piece. Also shows the opening up of Japanese cinema during this period which led to such fine work as Onibaba, Kwaidan, The Face of Another, etc.
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